From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4230 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2002 00:15:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4207 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2002 00:15:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2002 00:15:23 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16yM44-0003hQ-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:15:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:15:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Multi-arch only GDB 6.0 .... Message-ID: <20020418201548.A14027@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3CBF600D.8090205@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CBF600D.8090205@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00320.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:08:45PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > So, > > The GDB 5.0 version bump came about mainly because: > > o 5.0 requires an ISO C compiler > > If someone wants to build GDB using a K&R compiler, they could use the > older 4.x series or a ISO->K&R converter. (It also was part of moving > GDB to a public repository but that is secondary). > > I think it is time to think about a GDB version bump. This time the > reason being (credit to Martin Hunt): > > o 6.0 only supports multi-arch targets > > If someone wants to use GDB on an older more obscure target then they > can grab an old 5.x release. > > A tentative schedule (based on this 4 month release cycle) would be: > > jul-aug: 5.3 mark all as obsolete > nov-dec: 6.0 have removed them (YA!) > > Anyway, I'm going to mention all these going to be obsoleted targets in > 5.2's NEWS file. > > Thoughts? It's a nice idea, but can we really ditch all the non-multi-arch targets? I think you filed bugs about them all at one point; could you give an exact list of the targets that would be going? I'm stuck maintaining GDB for Debian right now. In our current release, that's 11 architectures. I think that at the least Sparc, Alpha, and m68k are non-multi-arch (and HPPA is non-contributed, but there's nothing I can do about that...). We may be able to talk David into cleaning up Sparc, but at the other two are also still in active use. I think that we need to allow more time in order to get as many targets as possible converted over - I'll do the two I mentioned myself if no one else has time, but it'll take a while. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer